Aldous Huxley Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself.

  Aldous Huxley

  Thinking, Evil, World

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

• Good action and thoughts produce consequences which tend to neutralize, or put a stop to, the result of evil thoughts and actions. For as we give up the life of self (and note that, like forgiveness, repentance and humility are also special cases of giving), as we abandon what the German mystics called "the I, me, mine," we make ourselves progressively capable of receiving grace. By grace we are enabled to know reality more completely, and this knowledge of reality helps us to give up more of the life of selfhood - and so on, in a mounting spiral of illumination and regeneration.

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving Up, Humility, Reality

• Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Mind, Prohibition

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

• The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Evil, Would Be

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

• Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Necessary Evil, Chaos

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

• Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry.

  Aldous Huxley

  Stars, Hate, Men

  Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

• For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society.

  Aldous Huxley

  Brave New World, Evil, Philosopher

  "Brave New World". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 1, 1932.

• Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil.

  Aldous Huxley

  Art, Mean, Men

  Aldous Huxley (1969). “Great Short Works of Aldous Huxley”

• It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Evil, Addiction

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.358, Transaction Publishers

• Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2000). “Complete Essays: 1930-1935”, Ivan R Dee

• Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness.

  Aldous Huxley

  Evil, Unity, Separateness

  Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

• Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Hypocrisy, Evil

  Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

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